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‘America’s Next Top Model’ winner Eva Marcille was ‘amazingly horrified’ by docuseries
“America’s Top Model” winner Eva Marcille says she was “amazingly horrified” by the bombshell Netflix docuseries about the show, because she had “absolutely no idea” such “horrible” acts occurred on it.
The Cycle 3 winner — who appeared on the show in 2004 under her maiden name Eva Pigford — admitted she was “gobsmacked” after watching the three-part series, “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model.”
“I was in awe … my mouth was wide open. To be a part of a club and not know what’s going on in the club is crazy,” Marcille said on CBS Mornings Thursday.
“I’ve lived my experience, I’ve walked in my shoes,” she continued, “and though there is a level of relatability one would assume someone having walked in the same shoes, I had no idea.”
The reality star — who later joined the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” — “absolutely” believes “ANTM” producers knew about all the alleged wrongdoings that happened throughout the show’s run, including alleged bullying, body shaming, and racial profiling; and even believes they fed into them at times.
“That environment could not exist without producers aiding and abetting what was going on,” she said. “I’ve done reality now on every level. ‘Housewives.’ I mean, I don’t know what is going on in someone’s life unless the producers tell me. It’s a part of how this thing works.”
In spite of all the allegations specifically made against the show’s creator and host, Tyra Banks, Marcille thanked and defended her.
“What Tyra set out to do in this business, I will always say — and especially for ‘Top Model,’ initially — she set out to change the world; to change what the modeling industry looked like, sound like, felt like and expected. And she did that for me.”
She also recognized that the supermodel “apologized a million times” for her actions on the show, but that the contestants she hurt don’t need to forgive her.
“For the young girls that were sexually assaulted… for the young girls that now have eating disorders or look at themselves and never feel beautiful — that little girl in them that will always live in the woman that is them — there is no sorry, I think, that’s big enough to truly feel and heal that kind of hurt.”
One of the “ANTM” contestants who has been extremely outspoken about Banks’ alleged mistreatment is Lisa D’Amato, who exclusively told Page Six that the TV host only participated in the docuseries to “save face” rather than to take accountability.
“Tyra’s all about making money. She doesn’t have any real empathy for anybody else but herself,” she claimed earlier this month.
The Cycle 5 competitor and Cycle 17: All Stars winner has long accused Banks and developer Ken Mok of exploiting the “horrible” childhood trauma “inflicted” on her by her mother for a more dramatic and successful show.
She even claimed that during Cycle 5, Mok denied her off-camera request to “stop using [her] childhood trauma against [her] behind the scenes,” which resulted in her “crazy villain” edit.
Another “ANTM” alum, Tiffany Richardson, lashed out at Banks on social media after the docuseries premiered, labeling her a “bully” and a “lying-ass bitch.”
The Cycle 4 competitor and Banks had an infamous fight on the show that Richardson insists Banks is still not sorry for — although the actress admitted she took the argument “too far” in the docuseries.
“You know how you treated me the whole time off and on camera, YOU WAS A BULLY!!!” Richardson alleged. “You treated me like s–t and said the nastiest things about me and my son.”
Richardson also alleged that production “edited” the heated exchange to make it look like Banks “cared” about her.
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